the carribean causing havoc adds randonness to the game. However it really irritates me when they jon together into a massive unstopable pirate fleet
that would be hard to defeat even with your full navy.
Is there any way to stop these pirate superfleets from forming? Or an easy way to get rid of them once they have? I don't want to kill off all pirates, but feel it would be better if they olny formed into smaller fleets or wandered on their own to try and snap up prizes. (which is more usual pirate behaviour)

Having occasional pirates floating
around gives my pirate hunting frigate captain something to do. My Captain Spelding with his ship Revenant(captured from the french), plus his two supporting
ships, should be enough to take out most wandering pirates.
, hopefully they'll put it in a patch that pirates
don't form fleets larger than 3 or so.